With 18,000 still missing after China's quake, Beijing is organizing a massive campaign to log corpses and establish a DNA database that will help survivors learn the fate of disappeared relatives.

Thanks to the newly published interactive Database of the Dead, you can explore all kinds of interesting facts contained in the official U.S. death records. How many people with your name have died ...

Are vendor claims that big data, IoT and NoSQL killed RDBMS credible? Nothing is that simple in the enterprise data center. I recently received a promotional message from a PR representative of a ...

The Center for Investigative Reporting recently released a "Left for Dead" database with county-level counts of the nation's unidentified bodies. Louisiana currently has 119 unidentified individuals ...

The Department of Homeland Security requested the Social Security Administration to enter more than 6,000 names of immigrants into its database used to track dead people, according to a DHS official ...

TODAY The People reveals how ministers are considering taking DNA samples from EVERYONE who dies in Britain. The idea would be to check them against the police DNA database in the hope of clearing up ...

Do we even know what we are referring to these days when we say "marketing database"? The evolutions and revolutions in marketing have been and remain relentless. What was once the marketing database ...

Flying somewhere over Utah in a cramped regional jet, I started thinking about the good old/bad old days of being an Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) 15 years ago. The DBA has traditionally been ...